The Herald's View: The “vision thing”, as then US presidential aspirant George Bush snr put it in 1987, has prompted mixed reactions in Australia
Paul Keating, the most prominent recent proponent of big-picture politics, dared to imagine Australia as part of Asia, a republic constitutionally separated from the Crown and reconciled with Indigenous people. He packaged it all up and sold it with an aggressive, sarcastic political demeanour.
There were echoes of this history in Deborah Snow’s revealing interview with the current Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, in theat the weekend. Mr Morrison is not much interested in the vision thing. The very idea of leaving a legacy was a preoccupation of the vain, he told Snow. “It’s just not how I think about things.”As for Australians generally, they don’t “want to spend every afternoon talking about politics,” Mr Morrison said.
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